Imperial City, Qixiang Hall.

The twilight is gradually sinking, the cold wind is blowing outside the window, and the withered and yellow grass and trees are constantly blowing.

It was over half the time, and the eunuchs filed back with the cold but untouched food. Zhu Yunxuan always stood in front of the case, staring at the unfolded Dayan map on the case for a long time. A dim yellow lamp was lit by the side of the case, and the candle flame was reflected in his black pupils, and it was bright and extinguished.

Abrupt footsteps sounded without warning in the dim and quiet hall. Zhu Yunxuan raised his eyes and glanced at the person who was approaching, with a look of alienation between his eyebrows: "King Zhao came in, why didn't you call someone first?"

Liang Zhen smiled without saying a word, waved his hand, and signaled that all the palace servants who were guarding the palace should step down. Zhu Yunxuan looked cold, but did not object.

Liang Zhen walked slowly to the side of the table, glanced over the table, paused, and said, "Your Highness is so interested that he actually looked at the geographic map."

"Just look at it." Zhu Yunxuan's voice was indifferent, and his fingertips slowly rubbed the map under his hand. From south to north, from east to west, Dayan's mountains and rivers are all on this small map, but it weighs thousands of pounds. .

"This is the capital," Liang Zhen approached Zhu Yunxuan and stood side by side with him, almost whispering in Zhu Yunxuan's ear. Towards the northwest border pass, the voice is even deeper, "Here, it is Qiongguan."

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes flickered, and then he heard Liang Zhen's words with a smile, and said slowly: "He Huailing is very capable, this time I have finally completely cleaned up the northern barbarians, Your Majesty Long Xin is very happy, I haven't even used any medicine in the past two days."

Zhu Yunxuan's tone was still flat: "If Your Majesty can be peaceful, it will be a good thing."

"Your Highness," Liang Zhen called to him softly, the heat from his breath made Zhu Yunxuan feel slightly uncomfortable, so he avoided it without a trace, and the smile on Liang Zhen's lips became stronger, "Aren't you going to visit His Majesty's palace? Concubine Chen Gui takes the ninth prince to stay in front of His Majesty's sick bed day and night, and you only go to ask for peace in ten days and a half months, so aren't you afraid that His Majesty will accuse you of being unfilial?"

Zhu Yunxuan was indifferent: "You also know that Concubine Chen and the Ninth Prince are guarding there, there is no room for me to intervene, not to mention, aren't you there? Compared with me, Your Majesty should prefer you to guard there. Come on."

Not caring about the ridicule between Zhu Yunxuan's words, Liang Zhen still smiled: "How can it be the same, you are his son, I am just a foreign minister."

"Heh." If it was an ordinary foreign minister, how could he be granted the king's title, and how could he be able to walk freely in the inner palace at this hour? He was always different from the people next to him.

"The imperial doctor said that Your Majesty may not be able to survive this winter."

Zhu Yunxuan paused while rubbing his fingers on the map, a complex color flashed in his eyes, Liang Zhen got closer to him, and a deep voice sounded in Zhu Yunxuan's ears: "A few days ago, Zhang Shoufu and the other two patriarchs The old man was called into the palace, guess what they are going to do?"

Zhu Yunxuan's eyes were darker: "Why do you ask for it knowingly."

"Aren't you curious at all, Your Highness?"

"That's it, His Majesty is afraid that there is a conclusion in his heart, and he can't change it. What's the use of being curious?"

Liang Zhen chuckled: "That's not necessarily, until the end, everything is possible, and it's a human effort to get to that point."

Zhu Yunxuan looked at him coldly: "Why doesn't King Zhao speak directly?"

Liang Zhen looked at him with a smile: "Your Highness, why don't you guess, is the name above you, or the ninth prince?"

Zhu Yunxuan asked calmly, "Why can it only be me or the ninth brother? Don't forget that His Majesty has six princes."

"It's a pity, it's a pity, in the past, the crown prince was wrongfully killed, and the second highness was executed for treason. If they were there, I'm afraid it wouldn't be your turn, but now the third highness is stupid and stupid, the fourth highness is disabled, and the sixth highness died early. , the rest are still young, and you are the only one of His Majesty’s effective sons. Anyone with a discerning eye on the throne knows that either your son of the Fifth Highness, or Jin Guijiu, who came out of the concubine Chen, who has been loved by thousands of people. How can you think of being a third person, the prince's, besides, your highness, you have entered the court and you are the direct son, then the ninth highness is still a nursing baby, in my opinion, your chances of winning are very good."

Liang Zhen spoke slowly, and blinked at Zhu Yunxuan's alert eyes, as if he was talking about something very interesting.

Zhu Yunxuan sneered, almost gritted his teeth: "Liang, Zhen, just say what you want to say, why do you have to be so obtuse? You can't think of a third person? If your name is written on it, isn't it a third person? "

Liang Zhen smiled and shook his head: "Your Highness is not confused. My surname is Liang. Although I have received His Majesty's love and received the king, it is not the Zhu family, so how can I sit in the Zhu family's country?"

Zhu Yunxuan said: "Okay, since you say that, I'll take it that you don't want it. Didn't you come here today to tell me who the person written above is? What do you mean by human? What do you want me to give you again?"

Liang Zhen narrowed his eyes lightly, looked at Zhu Yunxuan deeply, his eyes darkened, his fingers tapped lightly on the case, as if thinking about it, and after a while, he suddenly raised his hand, took Zhu Yunxuan's waist, and pulled him to the side. in front of you. Zhu Yunxuan's expression changed, and before he had time to react, he was pushed down on the table by Liang Zhen, and the paperweight pressed on the map was swept to the ground with a crisp crackling sound, and it was torn apart.

Zhu Yunxuan glared at Liang Zhen angrily: "What are you doing?!"

The tall body of the other party was pressed down, and he took off his belt, and his warm breath gushed around his fair neck. Zhu Yunxuan looked away in embarrassment, and his eyes turned red in an instant: "...you have to be so humiliated again. to me?"

Liang Zhen placed a light kiss on the side of Zhu Yunxuan's neck, pressed his wet and hot lips to his ear, raised his hand and clamped his chin, preventing him from avoiding: "Your Highness, how can this be called humiliation? You've been amused every time, haven't you?"

After a pause, he said again: "His Royal Highness, do you want this country? I'll help you, and you can exchange it for yourself, okay?"

The hall was so quiet that needles could be heard falling. After a long silence, Zhu Yunxuan closed his eyes and said hoarsely, "Don't be here."

The lustful kisses fell on Zhu Yunxuan's face and neck one by one. Liang Zhen didn't listen to him, raised his hand slowly, and peeled off his clothes one by one.

At that moment, even though it was not the first time, Zhu Yunxuan was still pale in pain, biting his lip so as not to cry out.

The candlelight trembled, Zhu Yunxuan trembled all over, tears fell like rain, and the broken tears continued to fall into the jet-black hair that was scattered and dripped onto the map of Jiangshan under him.

That is the country of Dayan, the country of Dayan that he can reach but cannot reach.

Liang Zhen bent down, his lips and tongue swept across his closed eyes, and his trembling eyelashes wet with tears fell on the red lips that had bitten blood.

The tip of his tongue savagely opened Zhu Yunxuan's clenched lips and teeth, drove straight in, and swept back and forth in his soft mouth, chasing his entanglement forcefully. The saliva blended, and Liang Zhen tasted the bloody taste between Zhu Yunxuan's lips and tongue, but it aroused the suppressed sadism in his heart even more.

The night was getting dark, and the last candle in the hall was extinguished. Zhu Yunxuan's legs fell weakly, and flowers bloomed like blood on his snow-white body, and his hair covered most of his face. He just lay still on the desk, as if he had lost his breath.

Liang Zhen sorted out the clothes that he had never taken off, looked at Zhu Yunxuan like this, his pupils shrank slightly. He bullied him again, lifted his hair, picked him up, put him in the seat, helped him put on his coat, finally squeezed his hand lightly, and slowed down his voice: "His Royal Highness called someone to come in and wait for the bath. Change your clothes and rest early."

Zhu Yunxuan never opened his eyes again, and the corners of his red eyes were all wet.

The door of the hall opened and closed, bringing in a chill, and the sound of footsteps gradually faded away. Zhu Yunxuan slipped and sat on the ground, his palm resting on the broken paperweight, and a bloody hole was drawn. He didn't seem to notice, just stayed there He lay there dumbfounded.

The hall door opened a small gap again, and eunuch Gao An came in with his back shivering. Seeing that Zhu Yunxuan was lying on the ground in disarray, his palms were still bleeding, he immediately fell to his knees with soft legs and supported him, crying with a voice. The voice shouted: "His Royal Highness..."

Zhu Yunxuan slowly opened his eyes, and there was only a bit of bitter hatred in his red eyes. Looking at the eunuch who was crying and crying in front of him, he raised his blood-stained hand and squeezed the other person's neck.

"Your Highness, Your Highness..."

"If you dare to speak out about today's matter," Zhu Yunxuan gritted his teeth and said word by word, "What I hate most is the servants who are backing the master, you better remember it for me."

"Slaves don't dare...cough, slaves really...don't dare...cough..."

Back then, Zhu Yunjing, the elder brother of a compatriot of Zhu Yunxuan's mother and the abolished prince, was put to death in prison because he was betrayed by a personal official. No one in the Qixiang Hall knew that Zhu Yunxuan was most taboo about this.

After a long while, Zhu Yunxuan closed his eyes and finally let go.

Gao An wiped away his tears, got up and helped Zhu Yunxuan into the inner hall for placement, and then went outside to call someone to draw hot water. No one else had fake hands. He took the water into the inner hall by himself, poured it into the tub, and waited on Zhu Yunxuan to take a bath.

Looking at the mottled marks on Zhu Yunxuan's body, Gao An whimpered again in a low voice: "Your Highness, you are the direct prince, why is this..."

Zhu Yunxuan leaned in the tub and closed his eyes, but his eyebrows could not be stretched.

Why is this, why is this... From the very beginning, he knew that trading with Liang Zhen was equivalent to seeking skin from a tiger, but he had no other choice. He had already embarked on this road, so he could only go on and never look back.